Hey folks, Harry here with this excellent tidbit (with a link for more) from Xoanon, head genius behind TheOneRing.Net, who sent in this wonderful look at what is going on with Sean Astin and his Sam character.... Here ya go...
From: Xoanon
The Oct/Nov issue of 'Pavement' has quite simply one of the best interviews I've seen with a Lord of the Rings cast member, in this case Sean Astin. This magazine is available in Australia and New Zealand; it'll be a few days before I know whether we have permission to scan the whole thing. Meanwhile, here are some of Sean Astin's thoughts on his role, on acting, and on his experience with the Rings project.
"As I was reading the books, I was reading them with an eye towards Sam, but he's just got such a warm, honest, pure good-hearted essence. And that's his position in the film and in the book. It's to be a kind of barometer against which all of the adventure and evil is measured. Sam has an unfaltering moral compass. He always knows who he is. As all the different characters, with all their different complexities, change and evolve and grow or fail, Sam just is....good. He has a level of experience at the end of the trilogy that he didn't have at the beginning that informs his goodness. It makes his goodness that much more admirable. It's easy to be naive and innocent and good but it's another thing to have been embattled and, despite all of the trials and tribulations of an epic adventure, to remain good of heart."
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